New EU Leaders' Views Are at Odds

Ideological Rivals Likely
To Fuel Some Friction
Among Member States

By

Dan Bilefsky and

Keith Johnson Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

Updated July 21, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

The duo who take over two arms of European Union government this week are both obscure Brussels outsiders appointed in controversial backroom deals to help lead the world's largest economic bloc. But their similarities end there.

Jose Manuel Durao Barroso and Josep Borrell -- the president-elect of the European Commission and the new head of the European Parliament, respectively -- are ideological rivals whose foreign-policy and...